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I have installed ntop on my machine and I need to specify which network interface it should listen on. When I go to Admin -> Configure -> Startup Options in the web interface it says:

You cannot set the capture interface: missing privileges.

You need to start ntop with super-user privileges [-u]

How do I add the -u to the service startup?

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It's generally a poor idea to run services as root. Do you know if ntop drops its superuser privileges after startup? – codeMonk Nov 5 '10 at 0:16
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There's page on this in the Ubuntu community docs: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ntop

It says:

When first installing & configuring the ntop application you need to set an admin password.

sudo ntop --set-admin-password
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I did that when I installed ntop. That sets the website admin login password. – Andy May Nov 4 '10 at 23:09
Ah, sorry about that. It may be that that setting can't be changed through the Web interface. I just tried it on my machine, and I could switch the interface by specifying it at startup: sudo ntop -u ntop -d -i ethX – jasonbrooks Nov 5 '10 at 16:29
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The user is defined at /var/lib/ntop/init.cfg, I am not sure it's safe to change it since it was packaged to run with ntop, it was expected to work.

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Right now it has USER="ntop". If I change this value to anything else it errors saying it cannot run as that user. – Andy May Nov 4 '10 at 18:58
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